PrepTest 62, Section 3, Question 14
Music professor: Because rap musicians can work alone in a recording studio, they need not accommodate supporting musicians' wishes. Further, learning to rap is not as formal a process as learning an instrument. Thus, rap is an extremely individualistic and nontraditional musical form.
Music professor: Because rap musicians can work alone in a recording studio, they need not accommodate supporting musicians' wishes. Further, learning to rap is not as formal a process as learning an instrument. Thus, rap is an extremely individualistic and nontraditional musical form.
Music critic: But rap appeals to tradition by using bits of older songs. Besides, the themes and styles of rap have developed into a tradition. And successful rap musicians do not perform purely idiosyncratically but conform their work to the preferences of the public.
Music professor: Because rap musicians can work alone in a recording studio, they need not accommodate supporting musicians' wishes. Further, learning to rap is not as formal a process as learning an instrument. Thus, rap is an extremely individualistic and nontraditional musical form.
Music critic: But rap appeals to tradition by using bits of older songs. Besides, the themes and styles of rap have developed into a tradition. And successful rap musicians do not perform purely idiosyncratically but conform their work to the preferences of the public.
Music professor: Because rap musicians can work alone in a recording studio, they need not accommodate supporting musicians' wishes. Further, learning to rap is not as formal a process as learning an instrument. Thus, rap is an extremely individualistic and nontraditional musical form.
The music critic's response to the music professor's argument
challenges it by offering evidence against one of the stated premises on which its conclusion concerning rap music is based
challenges its conclusion concerning rap music by offering certain additional observations that the music professor does not take into account in his argument
challenges the grounds on which the music professor generalizes from the particular context of rap music to the broader context of musical tradition and individuality
challenges it by offering an alternative explanation of phenomena that the music professor cites as evidence for his thesis about rap music
challenges each of a group of claims about tradition and individuality in music that the music professor gives as evidence in his argument
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